Reminiscences

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Excerpt from Reminiscences: With Occasional EssaysNO one has asked for these Recollections, and when finished they will probably not be read by the public, and may be lightly esteemed by relatives and friends. But are these reasons for being deterred from an employment in which there come to my aid the gift of a specially retentive memory, the keeping of a copious diary, a wide course of reading, and an amount of travel, which, though it has not compassed India or the Colonies, embraces a considerable portion of Great Britain and Ireland, while Rhenish Prussia and Switzerland have been seen and enjoyed? In the course of the narrative I shall endeavour to show how the chief educative forces in my life have been, not school or college, but when, further on, I came under the in¿uence of men of marked ability, who, by precept and example, counselled perseverance, even under great difficulties and discouragement the motto of one of them being - He that tholes overcomes. That man was William Chambers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.